October 24, 2019 An 11-Story Monarch Mural, What Landscape Architects Wish You Knew, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Marianne North, Margaret Owen, Emily Dickinson, The Daylily by Peat and Petit, Plants to Cut Back, and A Fancy from Fontanelle

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Early this month, Hoodline published an article about Ink Dwell’s latest installation as part of their Migrating Mural project.

Ink Dwell selected a location at 455 Hyde St in San Francisco as the site of their next Monarch Mural. The 44-unit, 11-story apartment building was due for a new paint job anyway, so it was the perfect canvas for the project.

Ink Dwell and its conservation partner, the Xerces Society, work with communities to provide information and educational materials about the butterflies’ migration and the current population declines for pollinators.

Gardenista recently shared an excellent article by Barbara Peck called 10 Things Your Landscape Architect Wishes You Knew (But Is Too Polite to Tell You).

Barbara shares a candid little dose of professional truth in “10 Things Your Landscape Architect Wishes You Knew,” reminding us that children outgrow lawns, gravel can’t feed soil like mulch, and even the grandest specimen trees have mortal timelines.

Botanical History On This Day

1632 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, “father of microbiology,” was born—his fascination with lenses revealed a hidden world of microbial life and helped set the stage for modern plant anatomy.

1830 Marianne North, intrepid traveler and botanical artist, was born—she painted flowers across five continents, lamented the destruction of ancient forests, and left Kew Gardens a gallery of luminous oil paintings that still stops visitors in their tracks.

2014 Margaret Owen, English farmer, gardener, and devoted galanthophile, died—beloved for “snowdrop parties,” for breeding and naming exquisite snowdrops (including ‘Godfrey Owen’), and for donating her plant-sale proceeds to the MS Society.

Unearthed Words

Emily Dickinson’s autumn has trinkets, scarlet gowns, browning nuts, and a maple in a gayer scarf in a crisp little bouquet of October in verse.

Grow That Garden Library™

Read The Daily Gardener's review of The Daylily by John P. Peat and Ted L. Petit

Buy the book on Amazon: The Daylily by John P. Peat and Ted L. Petit

Today's Garden Chore

Plants to cut back in fall: Hostas, Yarrow, Peonies, Coreopsis, Bee Balm, Daylilies, and Iris—clearing the stage now so spring can make a cleaner entrance later.

Today's Botanic Spark

1885 A little poem about a rose by the English poet Henry Austin Dobson appeared in the Leicester Chronicle in England.

A rose laughed at her aging gardener—until Time quietly raked her petals under the soil: Henry Austin Dobson’s “A Fancy from Fontenelle” became an instant favorite in newspapers worldwide, and its final truth still lands like a soft thud of inevitability.

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